Reset and Renew New Year Retreat – a 5-day online MSC retreat 6-10 January 2027 (reduced fee)

This retreat is on UK/Europe and East Coast USA friendly times:

7.30pm – 9.30pm Wednesday 6th January 2027 GMT

10.30am – 9.30pm Thursday 7th to Sunday 10th January 2027 GMT

As the new year is traditionally a time for reflection and renewal, this self-compassion retreat provides a space to build resources and set wise intentions for the year ahead. This retreat qualifies as a prerequisite for the MSC Teacher Training as well as for an annual retreat for BAMBA registration for MSC teachers.

This retreat will help us to cultivate what we need to be present with self-compassion whatever challenges we face. It will start by exploring what will support and nourish us in 2027. 

We will draw upon foundational practices of mindfulness, kindness and tender compassion. We will also be exploring how fierce compassion can protect, motivate and encourage us in the year ahead.

By skilfully responding to the ever-changing landscape of our experience, we can learn to embrace whatever is fearful enabling us to build capacity and live more fully, heartfully and courageously.

About Mindful Self-Compassion

Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is based on research by Kristin Neff, integrated with the clinical perspective of Christopher Germer. MSC teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult moments in their lives with kindness, care and understanding.

The three key components of self-compassion are self-kindness, a sense of common humanity, and balanced, mindful awareness. Kindness opens our hearts to suffering, so we can give ourselves what we need. Common humanity opens us to our essential inter-relatedness so that we know we aren’t alone. Mindfulness opens us to the present moment, so we can accept our experience with greater ease. Together they comprise a state of warm, connected, presence.

Self-compassion can be learned by anyone, whatever our personal histories. It’s a courageous attitude that stands up to harm, including the harm that we unwittingly inflict on ourselves through self-criticism, self-isolation, or self-absorption. Self-compassion provides emotional strength and resilience, allowing us to admit our shortcomings, motivate ourselves with kindness, forgive ourselves when needed, relate wholeheartedly to others and be more authentically ourselves.

Rapidly expanding research demonstrates that self-compassion is strongly associated with emotional well-being, less anxiety, depression and stress, maintenance of healthy habits such as diet and exercise, and satisfying personal relationships. And it’s easier than you might think.

What to expect

Retreat Leaders:

Led by certified UK MSC teachers Dr Caroline Hoffman, Ph.D drcarolinehoffman.com and Dr Colette Power Ph.D  www.colettepower.com and with a combined teaching experience of over 30 years.

Our rates:

The retreat fee is £299 British pounds, 355 Euros or $399 US dollars (this was reduced on 20/10/2026)

The Application Process:
Our application and payment process involves the following steps:

We receive your application form and assess it to ensure that this retreat is suitable for you.
Upon offering you a place, we will then ask you to pay the deposit or for the full amount.
Your place is confirmed once we receive your deposit or full payment.
The balance is due one month before the retreat starts.
We will email you the joining instructions in advance of the course.

Payment and Cancellation Policy.
You may cancel your place one month before the start of the retreat. Cancellation incurs an administrative charge of £20 GBP or $25US).

Feedback from previous retreat run by Caroline and Colette:

• A wonderful retreat with highly skilled teachers, beautifully led by Caroline and Colette.
• Would I do it again?  Yes, in a heartbeat.
• The sessions on joy were just wonderful.  I ‘landed’ feeling refreshed and renewed.
• Caroline and Colette created a nurturing space in which we could explore a deeply compassionate approach to what it means to be alive.
• The retreat was beautifully run with wonderful talks and practices.  The topics flowed well and it was good to experience such embodied teaching. 
• Both Colette and Caroline were amazing.  Their storytelling just made the session.  It’s clear they’d thought very hard about the delivery online and they just made it work so well.
• Caroline and Colette created a very warm, friendly and loving learning environment, and I felt held and embraced by that – an awareness that I can bring to myself in my life.

There are a limited number of bursary-assisted places available on this event for those who could not otherwise attend due to financial hardship. For details please email caroline@drcarolinehoffman.com.